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You know exactly one person who owns an iPhone?

by BurritoAlPastor 7y ago

gambiting 7y ago
Well, two, but neither one of them uses Siri.
- pojzon 7y ago
  I find it weird people cannot understand, some dont see a point in using an assistant. Most productive people i know actually completely negate those "fancy" techs and stick to known old stuff. And those are not grandpas but 30-35yr olds.
  - Shivetya 7y ago
    well most interaction with these assistants is usually in the form of voice and many prize their privacy.
    - dleslie 7y ago
      Voice, with results sourced from their cloud storage.
  - melling 7y ago
    I'm over 50. I use Alexa and Siri every day. Of course, I've always been this way. I've heard that the old thing "does everything I want it do it" for decades. There are plenty of people on the Internet, for example, explaining why electric cars won't work for them today because they need to drive 500 miles every Monday... People think we'll have self-driving cars within a decade but voice assistants will remain primitive? Now that there's a financial incentive to improve voice user interfaces (VUI), they will improve rapidly. Hopefully, there will be a great open source option (like Linux), but I'm not waiting... After watching Star Trek and HAL as a child, I thought we'd be talking with computers decades ago.
    - pojzon 7y ago
      Comparing voice assistant to an electric car is like comparing ebook to a private jet..
      - melling 7y ago
        Do you think the technology in a voice assistant is in the hardware device on your counter? The Deep Learning in natural language processing is probably more difficult than in self-driving cars.
        dmortin 7y ago
        Language processing can compare inputs to stored voice samples. It is simpler than self driving cars which have to navigate a completely dynamic environment with many autonomous actors and make good decisions very quickly.
  - dleslie 7y ago
    Every so often, generally when Android updates, I give Google's assistant a try. It's awful. It never fails to understand me, and after manually correcting it, the assistant fails to find items that are _on_ the device; if it's not on Google's cloud services, then it doesn't exist, apparently.
  - Erwin 7y ago
    We just upgraded to the newest Samsung TV, and the voice integration is incredibly useless. You could ask for "netflix" (but the remote has a dedicated button for this!) but you cannot search for a specific movie, you cannot speak to enter your username/password or enter data in any text inputs. You cannot even pause any of the streaming apps (maybe you can pause if playing from the USB stick).
ReptileMan 7y ago
I know a lot of people with androids and iphones. Nobody uses Siri and GA. I know of nobody with alexa. I guess it mostly show the tech and tech adjacent bubble.

You know exactly one person who owns an iPhone?

gambiting 7y ago

Well, two, but neither one of them uses Siri.

pojzon 7y ago
I find it weird people cannot understand, some dont see a point in using an assistant. Most productive people i know actually completely negate those "fancy" techs and stick to known old stuff. And those are not grandpas but 30-35yr olds.
- Shivetya 7y ago
  well most interaction with these assistants is usually in the form of voice and many prize their privacy.
  - dleslie 7y ago
    Voice, with results sourced from their cloud storage.
- melling 7y ago
  I'm over 50. I use Alexa and Siri every day. Of course, I've always been this way. I've heard that the old thing "does everything I want it do it" for decades. There are plenty of people on the Internet, for example, explaining why electric cars won't work for them today because they need to drive 500 miles every Monday... People think we'll have self-driving cars within a decade but voice assistants will remain primitive? Now that there's a financial incentive to improve voice user interfaces (VUI), they will improve rapidly. Hopefully, there will be a great open source option (like Linux), but I'm not waiting... After watching Star Trek and HAL as a child, I thought we'd be talking with computers decades ago.
  - pojzon 7y ago
    Comparing voice assistant to an electric car is like comparing ebook to a private jet..
    - melling 7y ago
      Do you think the technology in a voice assistant is in the hardware device on your counter? The Deep Learning in natural language processing is probably more difficult than in self-driving cars.
      - dmortin 7y ago
        Language processing can compare inputs to stored voice samples. It is simpler than self driving cars which have to navigate a completely dynamic environment with many autonomous actors and make good decisions very quickly.
- dleslie 7y ago
  Every so often, generally when Android updates, I give Google's assistant a try. It's awful. It never fails to understand me, and after manually correcting it, the assistant fails to find items that are _on_ the device; if it's not on Google's cloud services, then it doesn't exist, apparently.
- Erwin 7y ago
  We just upgraded to the newest Samsung TV, and the voice integration is incredibly useless. You could ask for "netflix" (but the remote has a dedicated button for this!) but you cannot search for a specific movie, you cannot speak to enter your username/password or enter data in any text inputs. You cannot even pause any of the streaming apps (maybe you can pause if playing from the USB stick).

ReptileMan 7y ago

I know a lot of people with androids and iphones. Nobody uses Siri and GA. I know of nobody with alexa. I guess it mostly show the tech and tech adjacent bubble.